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Research data: QUALITY OF LIFE
2019 Cultures of positivity: interonnectedness as a way of being
This chapter argues that a good quality of life and well-being is manifested in a culture of positivity emerging from meanings made in peopl...
2019 Understanding well-being in the Ghanaian context: linkages between lay conceptions of well-being and measures of Hedonic and Eudaimonic well-being
The aim of this study was to explore the measurement and conceptualisation of wellbeing within the Ghanaian socio-cultural setting. In addit...
2018 Understanding goal motivations in deprived contexts: perspectives of adults in two rural South African communities
The aim of the present study was to explore and describe the goals and motivations underlying them for adults living in rural African contex...
2018 Representations of hope, goals, and meaning from Lay Person's perspectives in two African contexts
In the rapidly expanding field of positive psychology, a core question is now what the relationships among various positive constructs are a...